Curriculum Vitae

Andrew D. Zirkel

AndrewZirkel@gmail.com
http://www.andrewzirkel.com/

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Successful technology leader of large, complex, and diverse educational environments with over 7 years experience. Demonstrated skills in management, education and project leadership. Broad and deep technical background ranging from the development and delivery of services to IT infrastructure.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Oct 2007 - Present: Upper Merion Area School District
Network Manager:
  • Manage IT operations for a large District of 2500 nodes and 10 sites.
    • Manage the 1-1 initiative for our High School, consisting of 1400 laptops.
    • Consolidate and migrate storage to a SAN infrastructure.
    • Develop a virtualization environment for servers to lower IT TCO.
    • Develop a dual platform "zero touch" deployment using extensive scripting and a MySQL/PHP backend.
  • Educate Staff in all manners of technology usage.
  • Manage three technicians.
  • Manage thirty servers running a combination of Linux (Gentoo, Slackware), Windows Server 2003 and Mac OS X Server.
  • Create a learning environment that is safe, secure and consistent for students.
    • Through customized profiles and scripts, users get a similar experience regardless of platform.
    • Important data is always stored securely and backed up.
  • Provide staff with an environment that is effective and efficient.
July 2003 - Oct 2007: Exeter Township School District
Network and Systems Administrator:
  • Manage a network of one thousand nodes spanning six sites.
    • Management of Macintosh computers using "Magic Triangle."
    • Consolidation of authentication to one directory system.
    • Configuration of VLANs and network hardware (3com and Cisco).
  • Educate staff in general computing and environment specific skills.
EDUCATION
January 2007 - May 2008: Villanova University
M.S., Computer Science

August 2003 - December 2006: Villanova University
Master of Technology Management

August 1998 - May 2002: Elizabethtown College
B.S., Computer Science
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
PETE&C, February 2010
Dual Platform Network Administrators Unite - An overview of the challenges and solutions of running a dual platform (Mac and PC) environment.
TECHNOLOGY
Web Technology Proficiency
HTML, PHP
Programming Language Proficiency
C++, Objective C, Java, VB
Scripting Language Proficiency
Bash, PowerShell, VBScript
Operating System Proficiency
Linux, Windows, Windows Server, Mac OS X, VMWare ESX
Directory Systems
Active Directory, Open Directory
Network Platforms
3com 4400, 5500, WX4400 - Cisco IOS, PIX